Civil & Civic

Civil & Civic was an Australian construction company. Founded in 1951, it was acquired in 1961 by Lend Lease Corporation.

Civil & Civic
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryConstruction
SuccessorBovis Lend Lease
Founded1951
FounderDick Dusseldorp
Defunct1999
Headquarters
Sydney
,
Australia
Area served
Australia
New Zealand
ParentLend Lease Corporation
WebsiteLend Lease Projects

History

Civil & Civic was founded by Dick Dusseldorp in 1951 on behalf of Dutch building companies Bredero's Bouwbedrijf and The Royal Dutch Harbour Company as an Australian building contractor.[1] Its first contract was to supply and erect 200 prefabricated houses for the Snowy Mountains Authority which had been established by William Hudson, engineer of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.[2]

Hudson's greatest obstacle in the completion of the scheme was the provision of labour and materials. Without a resolution to these two problems the realisation of the project was doubtful. But 31-year-old Dutch immigrant Dick Dusseldorp conceived a plan to prefabricate frames for worker housing in Finland, plumbing in England, ship materials via Cooma and recruit labour from the Netherlands to erect the homes. Dusseldorp established Civil & Civic to take on and manage the multimillion-dollar contract.[2]

Civil & Civic went on to become Australia's leading provider of project management services in the construction industry, delivering a number of landmark projects including Stage I of the Sydney Opera House,[3] Australia's first all concrete skyscraper (Caltex House),[4] and the world's first high-rise strata title apartment building (Blues Point Tower).[5]

In 1961 Civil & Civic was acquired by Lend Lease Corporation, but the company continued to trade under the Civil & Civic name, also constructing the world's tallest lightweight concrete construction building (Australia Square), and the tallest building in the world outside North America (MLC Centre) at the time of completion.[6]

In July 1999 Civil & Civic was rebranded Lend Lease Projects. After Lend Lease Corporation acquired Bovis from P&O in October 1999, the former Civil & Civic business merged with the former Bovis business to form Bovis Lend Lease.[7][6][8]

Major Projects
Major projects undertaken included:

References
  1. The story of Lendlease Lendlease
  2. Modern Townships for Snowy Mountains Workers Sydney Morning Herald 12 January 1954 page 11
  3. Sydney Opera House Guide NSW State Records & Archives
  4. Ceramic Facing at New Caltex House Cumberland Argus 13 November 1957 page 10
  5. Towering ambition Sydney Morning Herald 27 September 2002
  6. Who We Are Bovis Lend Lease
  7. Ships - but no building BBC News 4 October 1999
  8. Home Lend Lease Projects
  9. Architecture Australian Academy of Science
  10. Reserve Bank, 65 Martin Place, Sydney Department of the Environment & Energy
  11. Reserve Bank of Australia, 20-22 London Circuit, Canberra Department of the Environment & Energy
  12. Australia Square: 50 Years in Sydney's Skyline Lendlease 9 May 2017
  13. $20m Jolimont Centre opens Canberra Times 6 May 1983
  14. City Living Archived 2009-09-15 at the Wayback Machine
  15. Sydney's Newington Olympic village 12 years after the closing ceremony Property Observer 8 August 2012
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